September Visa Bulletin - Some EB Categories Show Availability
Posted Aug 17, 2007
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The newly-released September Visa Bulletin from the U.S. Department of State has brought some very good news. Unlike the August Visa Bulletin, in which there were no visa numbers available for any of the employment-based (EB) categories, the September Visa Bulletin has reestablished cutoff dates in all EB categories. EB3 is the most limited, with unavailability still in place for China, India, and Mexico, as well as for "other workers." However, the news is far better for EB1 and EB2, many of whom will be eligible to file for adjustment-of-status in September. The reason for the change from August is that consulates, which receive allocations of visa numbers for each month, return the unused numbers. Thus, consular posts have returned numbers requested for July that were not used, so that these are now available for September. [As always, the most recent Visa Bulletin chart is available on MurthyDotCom.]
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This means that some who missed the August 17th deadline for filing their adjustment-of-status cases may be able to file in September 2007. Additionally, the USCIS potentially will be able to approve older, pending cases with priority dates that are current under the September Visa Bulletin.